Friday, August 21, 2015

How to Ease Growing Pains

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As companies get bigger, even child companies (brands, if you prefer), there comes a time when the startup mentality might not be helpful. ...

The Paradox of Success

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The “paradox of success” can be summed up in four phases: When we have clarity of purpose, it enables us to succeed at our endeavor. Whe...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Software Architects Need Feedback

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"Typically, [architects] are farmed out to various projects as consultants, with the aim of ensuring that the project takes off on the ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Micro-Services: The Modern Modular Programming Paradigm

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Modular programming  is a software design technique that emphasizes separating the functionality of a program into independent, interchange...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Regression Testing - Testing Variability

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When you need to test that a code change has made an improvement or, at least, didn't reduce the current level of performance, it is cal...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Get To It

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"Our great business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." - Thomas Carlyle ...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Strive To Fix What You Can

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I will admit to sometimes getting frustrated at work when someone doesn't want to work in a specific codebase because they think it has ...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Quality is #1

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A product with poor quality should not be tolerated. Delivering a product at the cost of quality should only be accepted in the short-term. ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Brute Neighbors

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One of my more cherished and private possessions is a book -  American Prose . It was printed in 1892, and is filled with short stories by A...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Not Even In The Same Ballpark

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Not so long ago, a new Product Manager told me that she also is a programmer... a software engineer. She implied that if she wanted she coul...